2nd set of recycled calendar ATC's

At last we bring you the final Calendar ATC's.... IF... there are only 1 or 2 of yours or even a 1/2 one as in Sharon's Dec 1 it's due to when I had probs with my 'puter...
some of them were unable to be saved...they were being wiped off in a clean up or a bug was trying to wipe them off.

The first set are from Sue Law and here is what she wrote about them.... For the Calendar ATC's I used sections of the cover of an Erte calendar for the backgrounds then used the summary pics on the back cover as the embellishments...I covered them with dimond glaze and then layered them onto some gold choccie wrappers from christmas choccies. The "style" was stamped using a custom stamp from Tanda on velum.





Thanks Sue x

Below we have Sheila who tells us on the back of each ATC where the Calendar was from...sorry Sheila your others were wiped off.

Those who were lucky enough to receive them know how you have a gift with Velum and stamping.

Thanks Sheila x

3rd set from Sharon, sorry about your dear Santa ATC some of the information was wiped off on that one...hence incomplete picture.
Love the monkey...lol


Thanks Sharon x

Our 4th set are from Michelle I do like that Valentine Image
Thanks Michelle x

5th Jenny, I was lucky enough to get your valentine as one of my swaps

Thanks Jenny x

And finally we have mine... the background papers are all from Cosmo Cricket and the images are from an old calendar about ordinary women... I just loved it and wanted to use it some where Hence the Recycled calendar ATC challenge.

Hope that you like them too.

Thank you to everyone who joined us it really is great to receive your creative work.

Sewing ones due out in the next couple of days...look out for them.

I know that I promised to hove thos to you before the weekend but ...SILLY me up loaded it all to THE PAPERGIRLS blog on Friday and this has been my first free moment to uploaded it to this blog....I won't do that again!!!

Have a great week and dont forget to pop back as I have the Friendship ATC's to show you... they have been recovered from the files thankfully.

Check out the 18th April post for the other Calendar ATC swaps

Take Care, Chriss x

MORE ABCDE ATC's

The Rest of our ABCDE ATC swaps are here...

Chriss....my SOH on the bottom right...lol

Sue Davies... love the finish on the next 4.... Sue are they waxed?
Thanks Sue

Sue Law.... Since doing the ABCDEF challenge Sue has gone on to do more of the alphabet and intends to finish it all.

Susan Australia.... are friend down under..it's great to have you joining us here in the UK...thanks Sue

Arty Jen...great stamps and great backgroundThanks Sue.

Sharon ...Love the use of ribbon and staples and at the time of making these it was close to Easter...
Thanks Sharon x

Sheila's ABCDE...this scan doesn't do them justice...sorry Sheila..a lovely use of velum

Paula's set from Brunei Thanks Paula x

And last but not least Kristens' all the way from USA Thanks Kristen x

Thanks to everyone who took on the ABCDE challenge a great response.

Our next challenge being to use METAL somewhere on your ATC's...THANKYOU for all the lovely emails to say how much you love the blog and to our new ATCer's who are taking part this month.... If you want some fab swaps from around the world and UK send in your Metal ATC by the 30th June...See the post below for more information.

Have a great day and lok out for the recycled Calendar ones coming up before the weekend.

love Chriss x

Junes challenge and a little toot.

Here we are half way through 2009...frightening isn't it.... 6 months to Christmas... Don't!! I hear you cry.

And so for our June ATC challenge.... I thought that we could try using 'METAL' in some form or another...

Below are some examples using 'METAL'

Do you remember this 1st one which Karen from Scrapz created for Dotties Fashion show last year...I still laugh at it now...it is sooo funny.

Next one is one that I made for Linda of ABAA some time ago.

The next 3 I have created for this months challenge the 1st 2 are using gold metal embossing powder on the background and Lisa's Altered Art images ...couldn't resist them....

And a little toot.... I am proud to have been accepted on the LAA design team as I just love her images and you should see the new sheets she launched a few days ago they are fabulous...I LOVE EM!

This next little guy is scrummy he reminds me of Leigh (DS2) when he was a baby.

The background has been cut from metal on a roll and then put through my Big Shot inside of a cuttlebug folder I then coloured it with alcohol inks which I bought from Karen at Scraps.

Hope that you enjoy this months challenge and you have been inspired with the examples here.

Another wonderful day of SUNSHINE hope that you all have the feel good factor today.

Take care and will be posting the others in the ABCDE challenge soon along with the Friends ATC's which I have now recovered for my sick 'puter'

Have a great day and WELCOME to our NEW FOLLOWERS...If anyone wishes to join in with our swaps then please contact me at chrissylamata@live.co.uk

Chriss x

ABCDE ATC SHOWCASE

Today we start off with our April challenge ATC's the theme being ABCDE.

Our 1st 4 are from Jenny

Thanks Jenny x

Alan, Brad, Casius and David are the men in Jaqi's life...lol x

butterflies and dragonflys come from Ed...thank you x

This little Beauty and the following 3 were sent in by Denise.

Thanks Denise in Dubai. x


Debbie sent the above 4 as her swaps...thank you.x

The Eye Art swaps are from Chris

Thanks Chris x

The next 5 are from a 1st timer... my daughter who just cant see why I get so excited over
ATC's ... the day she completed these I had Debbie, Chris and cheryl over for a good old chinwag ...3 of us beavering away on our April ATC's

Well, we challenge Cheryl to have ago and this is what she came up with...

Thanks Cheryl. x

Our last 4 being shown tonight are from Carol

Thank you Carol. x

Still More to Come So Keep Popping Back. :))

I will try to show the rest of the recycled Calendar ones at a later date as at the moment they are in a file which needs some work done on it after retrieving them when the PC crashed.

Apologies to those who are waiting to see theirs ATC's.

If I dont get back on before the weekend have a GOOD ONE. x

Chriss x

ATC Sewing challenge & UPDATE

The ATC below is an example from one of Jenny Franklins Sewing ATC's

she has sewn on buttons and created a pretty flower in cross stitch

See also 3 other sewing examples for Ideas.

Something as simple as sewing on beads, buttons or a few lines of stitching around the outer edge would be enough to complete this challenge...we are not all seamstresses... I'm not that's for sure. LOL.

I do hope that you will still find the time to join in with this one and because I am late showing you examples I can give you until the 8th June to get them to me.

Thanks to those who have already sent in their Sewing ATC's.

I spent the whole of today Scanning the last 2months ATC's and the swaps will be completed this evening and into the post in the morning.

Thank you everyone for being so understanding with the delay.

Its great to have my puter back it's a good friend to me.

Will be catching up very soon showcasing all the other ATC's.

Please check back when you can.

Must pop off and clear some of the 100's of emails waitng to be answered.

Chriss x

UPDATE..... ALL ATC's HAVE BEEN POSTED OUT.... 21 05 09